{"id":672,"date":"2019-08-21T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2019-08-21T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:26:28","slug":"september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction to her 1986 book \u2018Knebworth Rock Festivals\u2019, my mother Chryssie says how \u201cfrom Adelaide to Santa Barbara, Stockholm to Nairobi, wherever I travel I discover Knebworth fans.\u00a0 \u2018Where do you come from?\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Near Stevenage.\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Never heard of it.\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Well\u2026 Knebworth.\u2019\u00a0 \u2018KNEBWORTH!\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Deep Purple!\u00a0 ******* wet wasn\u2019t it?\u2019\u2026 \u2018See you next year!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To us, the people of this Parish, the word \u2018Knebworth\u2019 means very much more than rock concerts.\u00a0 But it is a fact that, since the 1970s, the name of our home has reached the far corners of the Earth because of the profile of these unique events.\u00a0 Knebworth Concerts are unique because of their size \u2013 Knebworth Park is still the largest single stage venue in the country \u2013 and because of a growing legacy of legendary moments of music history, such as the last ever shows of Led Zeppelin and Freddie Mercury, and the iconic weekends of Oasis in 1996 and Robbie Williams in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The man responsible for initiating the worldwide recognition of the name \u2018Knebworth\u2019 died in August. \u00a0So this month I pay tribute to the vision, perseverance, downright stubbornness, but most of all love of music of Freddy Bannister, the father of Knebworth Concerts.\u00a0 Thank you, Freddy, for every one of the legendary Knebworth concerts of the 1970s \u2013 Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, etc. \u2013 and for that prescient letter to Knebworth House of 5<sup>th<\/sup> February 1974 that started it all:\u00a0 \u201cI was struck by the obvious suitability of the area for a one day popular music concert\u2026\u201d\u00a0 To Freddy Bannister &#8211; Knebworth Park and millions of music fans worldwide salute you!<\/p>\n<p>Henry Lytton Cobbold<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryCobboldKH\">@HenryCobboldKH<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_673\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-673 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Freddy-Bannister-bw-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Freddy-Bannister-bw-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Freddy-Bannister-bw-768x1010.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Freddy-Bannister-bw-779x1024.jpg 779w, https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Freddy-Bannister-bw.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 228px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 228\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freddy Bannister<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction to her 1986 book \u2018Knebworth Rock Festivals\u2019, my mother Chryssie says how \u201cfrom Adelaide to Santa Barbara, Stockholm to Nairobi, wherever I travel I discover Knebworth fans.\u00a0 \u2018Where do you come from?\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Near Stevenage.\u2019\u00a0 \u2018Never heard of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/knebworthhouse.com\/blog\/?p=672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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